Toy gun.



PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

1). BQHOFFMAN.

TOY- GUN.

APPLIUATION FILED 313.19. 1906.

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. projectile consists of an elastic strap 3, prefrior side view of thesame.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID B. HOFFMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TOY GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed February 19,1906. Serial No. 301.784-

, l rel. To simplify the manner of attachment Be it known that I, DAVIDB. HOFFMAN, of i of the rubber strap, the wall of the barrel at the cityof Baltimore and State of Maryland, i diametrically opposite points ispartially have invented certain Improvements in Toy stamped out and thetongues a turned back Guns, of which the following is a specificaagainstthe outer surface of the barrel, as tion. i shown particularly inFig. 1. By this con- This invention relates to certain improvestructionsmooth rounded surfaces 1 are proments in that classof toy guns in whicha duced, over which the ends of the strap are rojectile, preferably asmall red, is proplaced. The folded ends of the strap are pelled througha tube or barrel by means of secured by cement, which is introduced atc. an elastic strap. In the drawings the gun is shown as it ap- In thefurther description of the said inears before the rod 2 is drawn back tovention which follows reference is made to stretch the elastic strap. T0effect this operthe accompanying drawings, forming a part ation, the rodis grasped by the fingers after thereof, and in which the manner ofarrows used in archery.

Figure 1 is a partly-sectional top view of I claim as my invention theimproved toy gun, and Fig. 2 an exte- In a toy gun, a barrel having atone end thereof openings in its wall formed by punching out a tonguewhich tongues are turned back or folded over the barrel 1), combinedwith a rubber strap the ends of which are inserted through the saidopenings and folded over the tongues and secured, substantially asspecified.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Referring now to the drawings, 1 is a tube which serves as the barrel ofthe gun, and 2 the projectile, which in the present case consists of aplain rod. This rod is made considerably smaller in diameter than thebarrel in order to reducehfriction beltween Elie rod and barrel as t .erojecti e is ischarged. The means for discharging the DAVID HOFFMANI/Vitnesses:

THOMAS G. HULL,

erably indiarubber, the ends of which are l WM. T. HOWARD.

attached directly to the rear end of the bari

